James Gunn Quotes

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.

I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.

I love making movies.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

I was always into music, but I wanted to do film when I was kid. I remember seeing big movies and wanting to do them. Then I was lucky enough to act in some of them, and I fell in love with it.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I like making movies.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.